iCal

Since Camel 2.12

The ICal dataformat is used for working with iCalendar messages.

A typical iCalendar message looks like:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Events Calendar//iCal4j 1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130324T180000Z
DTSTART:20130401T170000
DTEND:20130401T210000
SUMMARY:Progress Meeting
TZID:America/New_York
UID:00000000
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN=Developer 1:mailto:dev1@mycompany.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=OPT-PARTICIPANT;CN=Developer 2:mailto:dev2@mycompany.com
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Options

The iCal dataformat supports 1 options, which are listed below.

Name Default Java Type Description

validating

false

Boolean

Whether to validate.

Basic Usage

To unmarshal and marshal the message shown above, your route will look like the following:

from("direct:ical-unmarshal")
  .unmarshal("ical")
  .to("mock:unmarshaled")
  .marshal("ical")
  .to("mock:marshaled");

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-ical</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>